Dead of Winter

by Wendy Corsi Staub

Just as a murderer dumps his corpse into the lake across Valley View in Lily Dale, Bella Jordan happens to be at her window, not quite realizing what she's seeing. Unbeknownst to her, the killer spots her silhouette and prowls straight to her door. That is, until he's interrupted by a black cat. A superstitious gambler, he takes off, but Bella's seen too much, and he vows Just as a murderer dumps his corpse into the lake across Valley View in Lily Dale, Bella Jordan happens to be at her windo...

Dead of Winter Reviews

ChelseaOct 01, 2017

A fun mystery. Bella Jordan moves to an unusual town after the death of her husband. Being a single mom isn't easy and she is always busting her tail to make ends meet for her son and herself to survive. Her son Max becomes close friends with a boy named Jiffy. They are inseparable. BF...

Laurel-RainDec 19, 2017

Just as a murderer dumps his corpse into the lake across Valley View in Lily Dale, Bella Jordan happens to be at her window, not quite realizing what she?s seeing. Unbeknownst to her, the killer spots her silhouette and prowls straight to her door. That is, until he?s interrupted b...

HeatherSep 29, 2017

I was lucky enough to be granted an advanced copy of this novel, which is part of the Lily Dale Mystery series. When I requested the book, I wasn?t aware it was a series? entry. But it stands alone well so that wasn?t a problem. Bella and her young son live in a community inhabit...

DsbookAug 02, 2017

I read the first Lily Dale series years ago and loved them. I was happy to see that she is continuing the series about this town. These books have described the town in such detail that it makes me want to visit there. I really like the characters and will be watching for the next book...

AnnSep 10, 2017

This is book 3 of a nice suspense series, A Lily Dale Mystery. It's not a cozy and has some violence set among a community of psychics and spiritualists. A young boy disappears and people are thinking the worst. Bella sees a strange light outside her window and a murderer see's her ins...

JacqueJul 08, 2017

Set in the village of Lily Dale, where most residents are mediums, a body is found in the lake and a little boy goes missing during a blizzard. Bella lives in the Valley View inn with her son Max, but doesn't really believe in the mediums. But then she starts hearing music and a cat me...

Kathy Oct 28, 2017

Dead of Winter by Wendy Corsi Staub is a leisurely-paced cozy mystery set in the psychic/medium enclave of Lily Dale. This third installment in the Lily Dale Mystery series can easily stand on its own, but I recommend the other novels in the series as well.
The day after observing a...

LindaAug 28, 2017

I am new to the Lily Dale series, but I was fascinated by the characters and their interactions with each other and with Spirit. In this story, Bella unknowingly becomes witness to a murderer disposing of his victim's body in the lake. But the murder isn't the only thing happening in t...

Linda MunroJun 17, 2018

For those of you who have never been to Lily Dale; this series captures some of the calmness and the quirkiness of the tiny gated community; the murders, not so much. So, make Lily Dale a destination! What the author portrays as winter weather in Western New York can only be portraye...

JoAnNov 13, 2017

Dead of Winter by Wendy Corsi Staub is the third book in her Lily Dale series and was a captivating read. Bella and Max are enjoying their first winter in Lily Dale; and as Christmas approaches, Bella is trying to earn some new skills to make a little extra money for Max's Christmas pr...

Randi RobinsonNov 19, 2017

Dead of Winter is the third Lily Dale mystery and the seventh Lily Dale book by Wendy Corsi Staub. I have always loved her books so I was thrilled to be chosen to read this book. It is set just before Christmas in the middle of a blizzard in Lily Dale, NY, a town that was founded by ps...

Angela Brocato-SkaggsOct 16, 2017

I have been a fan of Wendy Corsi Staub for as long as I can remember and a Dead of Winter did not disappoint.
Dead of Winter is the third book in the adult Lily Dale Mystery series. I have not read the other two so at the beginning I was a little lost in trying to figure out who bel...

CarlaSep 26, 2017

I really enjoyed this mystery by Wendy Corsi Staub, my first novel by her. A young widow and her son move into a community of spiritualist (seeing ghosts, auras, talking to them, etc), all the while her scientific mind says it can't be true. But in the end not sure what to believe. A m...

ChristineNov 06, 2017

Bella Jordan unwittingly sees a murderer dump a dead body into a lake across from the Valley View, the bed and breakfast she helps manager. The killer is scared off at that moment, but Bella could be in danger. Like Bella, her young son Max's best friend, Jiffy Arden, was also in the w...

MattieNov 06, 2017

Sometimes looking out your window can lead to you seeing something that you can?t unsee. It can also lead to a murderous villan seeing you.
Dead of Winter, is set in a small community in Lily Dale, NY. It?s residents are made up of mediums and psychics.
Bella Jordan & her ...

DebbieJan 30, 2018

I loved this little idealistic village full of psychics with some normal people mixed in. This was my second book in the Lily Dale series and I was so glad to return. I thoroughly loved it.
A close knit village where everybody looks out for one another and wherein several psychics h...

Linda StrongJun 25, 2017

Lily Dale is a small community, unique in that most of the residents are psychics and mediums who all have such quirky personalities.
Bella Jordan happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ... she hears a man's dying scream and then she sees his body floating in from the la...

JeanieNov 06, 2017

I love this mystery, and this series! From the first time I met Max and Bella, I found them endearing. Third in the Lily Dale Mystery series, each is better than the one previous. Most characters are small-town mediums ? eccentric and well-defined. There is more than one mystery, whi...

KristinaAug 18, 2017

Dead of Winter by Wendy Corsi Staub is the third book in A Lily Dale Mystery series. The night before Bella Jordan heard a scream out on the lake and the next morning she discovers a dead body wrapped in a tarp on the shore. Then Max?s friend, Jiffy Arden (who manages to lose his bel...

Barbara LackOct 24, 2017

I rate this book at 31/2 stars. It?s a simple read. All the paranormal stuff written in the book is done in such away that it makes the book not very believable. I was expecting a more serious mystery. The book was kind of all over the place for me. However, it makes for a quick cozy...

natalieAug 24, 2017

I was so excited when I received my copy of Dead of Winter by Wendy Corsi Staub from Goodreads that I immediately began to read it. First of all, always my thanks to Goodreads for allowing me to win this book.
I actually love this author's books and looked forward to this new one, b...

ChristineOct 30, 2017

Jiffy Arden is in the thick of things in Dead of Winter. A wandering six-year old who has spirit guides, he tells his best friend Max he is going to be kidnapped. Sure enough he disappears during a blizzard. Bella Jordan, not quite a non-believer, witnesses something odd and the next d...

Missi StockwellNov 15, 2017

I could not stop reading this book !!!! As soon as I started reading Dead of Winter by Wendy Corsi Staub I was hooked !!! Even though this is the third book in the Lily Dale Mystery series and the first one that I read, it didn't matter. I was introduced to everyone in town like it w...

CarrieOct 10, 2017

Bella Jordan just happened by her window in her home, Valley View in Lily Dale, when a murderer was dumping a corpse in the remote lake close by. The killer spotted Bella and thinking he had been seen he heads straight to her door when he comes across a young boy chasing a black cat th...

LinneaDec 18, 2017

Anti climatic by the end. ...

Alice BashJan 30, 2018

This book is the third book in the "Lily Dale" mystery series. It easily can be read as a stand-alone novel. Lily Dale is a small unique community in New York, with most of its resident being psychics and mediums. Bella Jordan, a widow, and her young son, Max, recently moved to Lily Da...

MaureenJan 11, 2018

Wendy Corsi Staub is one of my favorite authors. I will read anything she writes, and I am particularly addicted to her Lily Dale series. Staub brings just enough paranormal into the series to take it up a notch from being just another mystery, yet keep even non-believers questioning i...

JillDec 06, 2017

I received this book as part of a Goodreads giveaway, thanks to Crooked and Goodreads for the opportunity. If there is such a thing as the perfect Christmas mystery, then this book might be it. This is the first book I have read in series and it drew me right in. There were a few refer...

JeanineDec 12, 2017

I slogged through to the end and I am so glad to be onto a different book! First, parts of it were fun. I enjoyed the spirits and mediums and the missing boy. I was bored silly with these women prattling on about nothing The two mothers kept getting mixed up in my mind and i found myse...

Jenn BrouwerJan 26, 2018

As Mentioned before i loved the Lilydale series in general, but im not loving the Bella ones. This book just irritated me and it got worse as i went through the book. Bella knows this, or hears this, or suspects that... and ALWAYS shes going to tell someone right away but then doesnt o...

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About the author

Wendy Corsi Staub

New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than ninety novels, best known for the single title psychological suspense novels she writes under her own name. Those books and the women's fiction she writes under the pseudonym Wendy Markham have also appeared on the USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookscan bestseller lists.

LITTLE GIRL LOST (July, William Morrow) launches Wendy's fifth suspense trilogy for HarperCollins. In 2017, she concluded her Mundy's Landing trilogy with BONE WHITE (April, William Morrow), and released DEAD OF WINTER (November, Crooked Lane), the third title in her Lily Dale traditional mystery series.

A three-time finalist for the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, she's won an RWA Rita Award, an RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement, and five WLA Washington Irving Prizes for Fiction.

She previously published a dozen adult suspense novels with Kensington Books and the critically-acclaimed young adult paranormal series "Lily Dale" (Walker/Bloomsbury). Earlier in her career, she published a broad range of genres under her own name and pseudonyms, and was a co-author/ghostwriter for several celebrities.

Raised in Dunkirk, NY, Wendy graduated from SUNY Fredonia and launched a publishing career in New York City. She was Associate Editor at Silhouette Books before selling her first novel in 1992. Married with two sons, she lives in the NYC suburbs. An active supporter of the American Cancer Society, she was a featured speaker at Northern Westchester's 2015 Relay for Life and 2012 National Spokesperson for the Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation. She has has fostered for various animal rescue organizations.